Single-handed sailing. The sport of single-handed sailing or solo sailing is sailing with only one crewmember (i.e., only one person on board the vessel).
The term is usually used with reference to ocean and long-distance sailing, and particularly competitive sailing. Terminology[edit] In sailing, a hand is a member of a ship's crew.[1][2] "Single-handed" therefore means with a crew of one, i.e., only one person on the vessel. The term "single-handed" has been adopted into more general English, meaning "done without help from others"; however, it has also come to mean literally "with one hand".[3] Skills - Manly Adventure – Modern Pulp Magazine. Firearm Archive. I am occasionally sent pictures of guns from around the world built by other gunmakers or hobbyist.
I will display any pictures sent to me on these pages provided they are of reasonable quality and display a degree on ingenuity. If you have a gun you wish to send for inclusion on these pages please feel free to send them along. All guns are shown on the understanding that the builder did not break any pointless, futile, and utterly contemptible gun laws in there country of residence. A Knuckleduster Zip Gun, 38spl. Improvised firearm. Improvised firearm disguised as a flashlight/torch An improvised firearm is a firearm manufactured other than by a firearms manufacturer or a gunsmith, and is typically constructed by adapting existing materials to the purpose.
They range in quality from crude weapons that are as much a danger to the user as the target, to high-quality arms produced by cottage industries using salvaged and repurposed materials.[1][2][3] Improvised firearms are commonly used as tools by criminals and insurgents and are often associated with such groups.[4][5] Other uses for improvised firearms include self-defense in lawless areas, or in poor rural areas for hunting game.[6]
100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) - StumbleUpon - Nightly. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.”
Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. Hack a Day — Fresh hacks every day - Nightly. Straight Razor Shaving For Beginners. Our very first post on the Art of Manliness was a introductory guide to shaving like your grandpa with a double-edged safety razor.
Since then, we’ve received requests to do a similar article on straight razor shaving. Well, after months of experimenting with straight razor shaving myself and researching the subject in old books on barbering, I present this beginner’s guide to shaving like your great-grandpa. I couldn’t possibly put everything there is to know about straight razor shaving in a single article, but the following presents the essentials of this old-time shaving ritual. Benefits of Straight Razor Shaving Better shaves. Reduced costs. Environmentally friendly. Learn How to Shave Like Your Grandpa. Proper shaving has become a lost art.
Today’s average male has no clue about the fine art of the traditional wet shave that their grandfathers and some of their fathers used to take part in. Instead, they’re only accustomed to the cheap and disposable shaving products that companies market. I’m not sure when or why it happened, but the tradition of passing down the secrets of a clean shave abruptly stopped. Thankfully, this glorious male ritual is making a comeback. Benefits of the Classic Wet Shave Reduce costs. Reduce environmental impact. Better, more consistent shaves. How to Ditch Big Brother and Disappear Forever.
Making High-Powered Black Powder. Take just 20 minutes to read this article, print it out, and use it to make this firework.
You will be amazed at how well it will work as long as you follow the steps we give you here. Try this project today and see if you don't agree. Black powder (BP) is an almost ridiculously simple pyro ingredient. Mostly just three chemicals, blended together in simple ways, but producing wonderful results. Black powder exemplifies for me the endless learning, experimentation, and creativity that fireworking holds for us. Introduction In this article I'll be writing about two basic skills: How to make black powder using 4 basic methods, ranging from the use of only two simple screens, through the use of a star-roller, hydraulic press, and/or a ball-mill.
Men's Health - Nightly. Win The Man Boob Battle - AskMen - Nightly. Get More Out of Your Kindle Fire Tablet: Five Tips. Five months after Amazon debuted its $200 "game-changing" tablet, the Kindle Fire is feeling more like a McDonald's hamburger next to Apple's prime-rib, third-generation iPad.
But it doesn't have to be that way. Since PCWorld's first roundup of recommended Kindle Fire apps, a cavalcade of new apps, tips, and hacks that breathe new life into the tablet have surfaced. Now you can tweak the user interface, no rooting required. You can also view full desktop versions of websites, instead of the default--and minimalist--mobile versions that the Kindle Fire normally delivers. And you can add several gigabytes' worth of music to your device without hogging valuable storage. Here are five tips to rev up your Kindle Fire and put a bit of that tablet swagger back into your investment. View Full Websites, Not the Cruddy Mobile Versions. 10 Ab Exercises - AskMen - Nightly. Use Google as a Proxy - 15 Things You Didn't Know Google Could Do - Nightly. Burl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly. Burls on a tree trunk in Norfolk County, England Description[edit] A burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress.
It may be caused by an injury, virus or fungus. Most burls grow beneath the ground, attached to the roots as a type of malignancy that is generally not discovered until the tree dies or falls over. The Best Time to Buy Anything During the Year - Nightly. How to Stop Wasting So Much Food in the Kitchen - Nightly. Unless you're a kitchen ninja that can plan and measure out the exact portions for every meal you make it's likely you find yourself wasting good food because you didn't plan right, you forgot about it, or you just had no idea what to do with it.
Thankfully, it's not too difficult to cut down on your kitchen waste. Here's how to do it.P Whether you're cooking for 10 or for one, wasting food in the kitchen is easy no matter how strictly you plan everything. Of course, planning is the first and most important part, but if you're no good at that we've got tips for organizing your fridge and finding alternatives for food on its way out. Let's start with the ever-important plan.P. How to Save Money on Groceries and Keep Making Awesome Food - Nightly. Survivalist Forum - FAQ. What Should I Always Buy Generic? - Nightly. Was going to post the same thing regarding flour.
The differences can be stark and very noticeable. I'm with you on King Arthur unbleached for bread. I've tried other flours and they simply don't have the loft. There was a great Cook's Illustrated article on the subject, and it is just manifestly true that the protein levels of different flours vary. Agreed on flour.
I fully agree on the pepper issue, as well as other herbs and spices. Also, these items may not be shipped or stored quite as fresh, and they don't fly off shelves either. RPi Distributions - eLinux.org - Nightly. Back to the Hub. Software & Distributions: XBMC - Raspbian - Nightly. Instructions for building XMBC from source are below, but they will take over 12 hours to compile on the Pi. If this doesn't interest you and you just want a working, binary XBMC package, one is being built and provided by Michael Gorven. It can be installed by following the instructions in his blog post. The following instructions were derived from instructions passed to me from Obsy on the #raspbian IRC channel.
An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte! - Nightly. RPi Distributions - eLinux.org - Nightly. RPi Hub - eLinux.org - Nightly. Notice: The Raspberry Pi Wiki pages on this site is collaborative work - the Raspberry Pi Foundation is not responsible for content on these pages. Now shipping to customers See the Buying Guide on how to order one, or visit the Raspberry Pi Foundation Home Page About The Raspberry Pi production board (model B Rev 2.0) 3D CAD Model of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (Download) Windows Installation - Nightly. Windows installation is very simple and works on Windows 2000 / XP, Vista and Seven. First, fetch the Windows installer from this link here and extract the contents to a folder. Next up, run the program called “setup.exe”, you may receive a UAC prompt if running Vista or later.
This is because the Raspbmc installer needs to run as an Administrator on your system to write to the SD card at block device level. OS X / Linux installation - Nightly. Raspbmc gets XBMC 12.2 - Nightly. XBMC 12.2 Frodo is released today and brings a variety of improvements to XBMC. From the XBMC website: Windows Installation - Nightly. Raspberry Pi tutorial: how to do more. For the price of a USB hard drive, you can turn the Raspberry Pi into a super cheap and supremely flexible network-attached storage box. Raspberry Pi tutorial: how to do more. Quick-start-guide-v2_1.pdf - Nightly. How to Install Game Emulators on the Raspberry Pi - Nightly. Desktop computer, media center, an integral part of a budget space program – is there no end to the versatility of the Raspberry Pi? Seemingly not – because it also does games. Not, of course, the most recent, high definition games with astonishing graphics.
Introducing the New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS) If you’re a beginner with a Raspberry Pi, things just got a whole lot easier. We started this project with the premise that throwing people in at the deep end and making them jump hurdles, to mix my sporting metaphors, is a good way to get them to learn stuff. It is: but it can also put some people off, sometimes terminally.
12 Body Hacks To Make Your Life Easier - Nightly. Instructables - DIY How To Make Instructions - Nightly. Beyond The Picket Fence - Nightly. 24 Clever DIY Ways To Light Your Home - Nightly. DIY/HOME - Nightly. Homemade Cat Treats from Your Kitchen - Nightly. I was scouring the internet wanting to find some healthy tasty cat treats I can make at home for my two pet felines. I thought it would also be great to give these homemade yummy treats to my friends as gifts for their cats. I found the first three recipes I’ve listed below at FreeCatHealthTips. com. They seem pretty easy to make, and not very expensive. They actually sound tasty. 6 ounces of un-drained tuna 1 cup cornmeal 1 cup flour 1/3 cup water Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 31 Insanely Easy And Clever DIY Projects - Nightly. Bookshelf Porn - Nightly.
Raspberry Pi XBMC Solutions Compared: Raspbmc vs OpenELEC vs XBian - Nightly.